Sentences with phrase «huge cost base»

Ericsson's huge cost base has left it floundering as demand for mobile broadband upgrades slows.

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INDA has since attracted a huge asset base, and does a great job tracking its index, often costing less to hold than its headline fee indicates.

With a low client cost of acquisition, a very low churn rate and high client LTV, there is a huge ROI for further investment in growing the client base and service offering.

-- Walk in refrigerators and freezers are actually far cheaper on a per - square - foot basis than small ones, so installing these is a huge cost savings in the long run.

Mobile - based democratization of mining activity would simultaneously drive down mining costs dramatically by distributing mining activities across a widening array of mobile phones globally, and increase cryptocurrency legitimization given the huge swaths of people previously disengaged from mining whose activity would produce entirely new value for more cryptocurrencies, increasing investment into cryptocurrency as a whole.

On the positive side, Oracle has a huge installed base, and clients would incur enormous switching costs to move to alternative database schemes and software vendors.

Considering everything involved, people no longer see bitcoin mining as a profitable venture, unless you intend to do it on a large scale, are based on a country where electricity cost is low, or have a huge budget to purchase and set up the hardware.

The company no longer operates its grocery warehouse but instead supplies its stores through Associated Wholesale Grocers, based in Kansas City, Mo. «They have huge buying power because of their size, so we can buy the groceries at a better cost for our customers,» Robert Greer says.

But there comes a point, and it could come soon, that politically - based decisions could have a huge impact on wine and particularly the cost of wine...

Whether it's a package that has your favorite baseball team or a local high school, customization is huge, and it's making the supply base figure out a way to offer lower quantity items [at a] cost - effective point.»

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

All of this is perfectly sensible if you're out the customs union, but it is a lot of work, based on technology which has not been shown to work at this scale, and relying to a huge degree on the cost - effectiveness and utility of IT solutions.

As it stands, a «huge proportion» of Australian students are so comfortable with the income - based repayment system, «they don't have any idea what their degree is going to cost,» said Colee, the president of the student union here, which favors eliminating tuition altogether.

Developing a research - based evaluation system is a huge undertaking, one that is prohibitive for the vast majority of school districts in both cost and time.

There's no denying that it is a lot of money for an MX - 5 (although if you buy a used example as a base car, the cost grumble crumbles), but it's a huge leap in performance and character.

Frontline Developments» MGB - based MG LE50 costs from # 57,900 but is amazingly refined and huge amounts of fun.

Amazon already has a huge consumer base and uses low initial cost of e-books to drive sales of its Kindle.

There are transactions that take 15 hours, and others that take 150 — sometimes the 15 hour transactions are the ones where we see a huge check (huge being drastically different, based on the market), and other times, it's a 150 hour check — of course, before taxes, advertising costs, Realtor Association costs and licensing / continuing education fees.

While at first glance, it appears that holding HXS will cost roughly twice the Management Fee of 24 basis points charged by the iShares S&P 500 C$ Hedged ETF (XSP), investors should keep in mind that HXS avoids two huge problems with XSP.

This can have huge implications for hiring and training costs, as evidenced by Cincinnati - based Buffalo Wings & Rings, which reported that doubling its share of full - time staff has produced a 25 - percent decrease in training costs.

The money is needed to fund operating costs that recently went up after 38 Studios acquired the Maryland based Big Huge Games.

This is most likely due to the huge player base for the PlayStation 4 which has now surpassed over 40 million consoles sold, so this is more than 40 million people who are potentially buying new content on the PlayStation store, as well as signing up for the PlayStation Plus service, which costs roughly # 40 per account.

Although Eizenstat and others see REDD as an opportunity to collaborate with developing countries to shore up a huge source of emissions at relatively low cost, there are no incentives to pursue REDD in any of the market - based mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol.

This eight week wait to become twice as rich is the basis for the repeated stories about the huge economic costs we will face.

To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.

But on the basis of that «qualified guess» the EPA Administrator is imposing huge costs on US businesses, which means huge costs on their customers.

Concentrated solar systems currently carry high costs and insufficient demand, which means they have a while to go before commanding a huge fan (or, more importantly, user) base.

I am more convinced than ever that policy, that will incur huge costs, needs to be based on sound economics and with the evidence documented and presented to engineering standards — i.e. researchers can go to goal for misrepresentation, dishonesty, negligence, incompetence.

Urban transport systems based on a combination of rail lines, bus lines, bicycle pathways, and pedestrian walkways offer the best of all possible worlds in providing mobility, low - cost transportation, and a healthy urban environment.Some of the most innovative public transportation systems, those that shift huge numbers of people from cars into buses, have been developed in Curitiba, Brazil, and Bogotá, Colombia.

The CA allowed the contractor's appeal against being liable for the huge remedial costs on the basis that:

In the end, the LSUC panel considered five factors in awarding the lawyers costs: their complete co-operation; their «huge effort» in asking the LSUC to reconsider its case; the hardship they faced and the effect on their careers; the fact both sides conducted themselves professionally; and the fact the LSUC «never put forward an opinion based on the facts of this case.»

Huge monetary costs are often at stake in these cases; smart clients work closely with these Miami Auto Accident Attorneys on a regular basis to reduce potential liability.

The thing that makes a winning fixed fee agreement is a quote that is lower than the fee that would be paid under an hourly basis, which then creates huge incentive for the firm to do the work at a lower cost (and I mean cost in the traditional sense of the word, not the lawyer sense) so that the firm increases its profit margin.

Porsche Design's first smartwatch will set you back a cool $ 795 ($ 925)-- not a huge amount by luxury watch standards, or Porsche Design standards — but around double the cost of the non-PD Huawei Watch Classic, upon which it's based.

The very nature of technology — that costs are fixed and best maximized over huge user - bases, along with the presence of network effects — mean there are greater returns to innovation than ever before.

And the uniqueness of this system lies in the fact that while it brings the huge cost advantage of infrastructure based on a distributed blockchain, it is fully legal and based on a national currency — currently the Polish Zloty.

This failure can ultimately cost your business a huge amount of money — between 4 and 6 times base salary, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

«There is a huge and growing need for low - cost transportation,» says Gehring, whose nonprofit agency is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Web - based services are a «pay - as - you - go» model that eliminates the need for huge up - front capital expenditures, high maintenance costs, and ongoing support costs — all while assuring the technology you're using has all the latest features and upgrades.